Reply To: CG Cookie as a Whole

Blender Different Versions – It’s not the workflow, it’s that certain parts of blender tools are in different areas. It takes time and googling to find same tool used. Not ideal for beginners

Other Providers – Udemy and GameDev seem better structured but this is small difference 

Learning Goals – My aim is to be proefficient/understand all parts of Blender. A full cycle of opening it and creating something to then show on social media. So for example creating a realistic artwork of a modern house in a secluded forrest.

Video Player – When completing a video a message pops up and doesnt go away just stays there, its annoying it i want to rewind, i dont want to click refresh all the time. The video segments on the video timeline is annoying, it snaps to the segment when i sometime want to jump between two segments. The help pop up is annoying and blocks screen at times. Why cant i use spacebar to pause. 

Production – Some videos audio is inconsistent, sometimes loud then quiet talking. Some instructors dont tell you why and often say dont worry about why a function is important which explains nothing. Lots of times, you just get told what a function does with a quick example. It’ll be better to see these applied to a project big or small to understand proper application scenarios and not some basic cube, thats like me teaching you basic maths + – / and * then expecting you to grow on that and go do some accounting work and expecting you to be able to. 

Fustration – im not fustrated at blender, you completely misunderstood. Im fustratued that the quality of content isnt quite there. There’s potential, just need to focus on  us beginners how to look at something and think if we do XYZ we can get an outcome like this then how to manipulate functions to get it to result we like and why said changes are resulting in what you’re seeing. It’s more of a beginner prespective of building foundation of key skills for application once the project is over. Some of your courses do this like Pokeball and minimalism courses.